‘The perillous and most unhappy voyages of John Struys, through Italy, Greece, Lifeland, Moscovia, Tartary, Media, Persia, East-India, Japan, and other places in Europe, Africa and Asia. Containing, I. Most accurate remarks and observations of the distinct qualities, religion, politie, customs, laws and properties of the inhabitants: II. A due description of the several cities, towns, forts and places of trust, as to their site and strength, fortifications by nature, or art, &c. with other things worthy of note: and III. An exact memorial of the most disastrous calamities which befell the author in those parts (viz) by ship-wrack, robberies, slavery, hunger, tortures, with other incommodities and hardships’ [‎354] (429/470)

554 The Voyages of V oy, Ilf.
oct. ed fo to fee my Wife and Children that 1 had no more enjoyment of
^672 • my felf, fo long as we made luch delay : wherefore I affumed the
boldnefs to fend 2 Letters, one to the Heer then Ordinary
Couneil for the InAies , and another to the Heer , hum
bly begging that I might be difmiifed my prefentferviceand be fent
home 5 which they were gracioufly pleafed to a (Tent to, and gave order
that I fhould imbarque my ielf aboard the Flyboat 4^ifUtU poojt to
return to Batayia and fo to go aboard the Ship wherewjth I
fet fad on the 4 of February 1673 ' i' 1 Company with the Ship
bfff, as Admiral; The3l{p[)Cn, Vice-Admiral,and Ppnafet, Rere-
Admiral, befides the Ships ^iatmcec , and Papcilbuvg. Wc directed
our Courfe W. and by S. thro the Straits of Sundz.
On the 5 we came before Bant ham and found there the 7 Ships
which were crufing before that place for the Engiifh and
On the 6 we found our felvs without the Straits of , and fet
our CourfediredlySouth-South-Weft till we Game in the height of 14,
degr. then altered, and bore up W. S. W. till we came at 28 and
then fet our courfe directly South till we came at 3 2 which is the
Jim- height of C. de Bona Effenm&a where on the 15 of t -^ipril we arrived
Cabode in the Bay, and found there fomSiiips that were bound for the
Bona coming from Holland. Here we firft heard the doleful news that the
ranee. French had already made themfelvs Matters of 3 of the 7 Provinces,,
that the 2 De Witts, the Penftonary and Ruiirt of Putten werefiicily mafia-
cred in the hi ague ■,as alfo that his Royal Highnefs the Prince of
was made or Lord Deputy Hereditary.
CHAP. XXXVII.
7 heir Departure from the Cape of Good Hope. The Europa taken hj
Englilh. TitaEngliih take the Ijland of Helena, and Dutch Ships
uimhor warns the refl of the Ships. Dutch Ships fcape afcouring. Ar
rival at Afcenfion. Abundance of T D ffription
ef the faid Ifland.It s ZJnfruitfullnefs and want offrefh water.
among the Engiifh to lean the Dutch upon the Ifland.
Arrival at Kingfale in Ireland, Their Briftol
and finally at Home.
WE tarried here till the 17 of on which day we received
an Order from the Governour to depart with the Ship
for